Storto in the running for the ANAC chairmanship

Storto to sort out the ANAC mess. The name currently considered the frontrunner for the presidency of ANAC is that of Alfredo Storto, Salvini’s chief of staff, Salvini’s ‘right-hand man’. The Council of Ministers meeting, which is expected to unblock the appointment following the Altieri debacle, is scheduled for 5.30 pm.

Storto is the official who has overseen the most important dossiers at the MIT; a third-party figure and a protégé of Domenico Fortunato, the long-serving chief of staff at the MEF during the Tremonti years. There is a struggle underway to get the nomination through, amidst backbiting, self-nominations and the dilemmas of the League’s factions. Altieri’s candidacy has already been sabotaged using the same method. One faction pushes for it whilst the other sabotages it. If the appointment were to fall through – and it might – it would be a setback for Salvini and proof that Meloni does not even trust the technical experts Salvini puts forward.